News & Events from the English Department at Western Michigan University

Monday, January 10, 2011

New Issues Publication Wins GLCA Award

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders is part of the AWP Award Series in the Novel, published by New Issues Press at WMU. Goldbloom's novel was selected for the series by Joanna Scott.

Goldie Goldbloom's novel Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders has won the 2011 GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Winning writers receive invitations to visit GLCA member colleges, where they give readings, meet and talk about writing with students and faculty members.

The GLCA judges noted:

This novel includes stunning descriptions of place; it is interestingly grounded in the historical billeting of Italian soldiers in the Australian outback during the Second World War. Its characters are both quirky and well-grounded, and their many eccentricities make the novel both distinctive and compelling.